Exodus 5:6

Overview - Exodus 5
1	Pharaoh chides Moses and Aaron for their message.
6	He increases the Israelites' task.
15	He checks their complaints.
19	They cry out upon Moses and Aaron.
22	Moses complains to God.

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Exodus 5:6 (King James Version)
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

taskmasters: {Nogesim,} literally, exactors, oppressors. These taskmasters were Egyptians, (ch. 1:11, ) but the officers were Hebrews; See ver. 14.; Exodus 5:10 Exodus 5:13 Exodus 5:15 Exodus 5:19 ; 1:11 Proverbs 12:10
officers: {Shoterim,} from the Arabic {saytara,} to overlook, superintend, seems to denote, as {musaytar} in Arabic also does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure answerable for them to Government; Compare ch. 2:14 .; Numbers 11:16 ; Deuteronomy 1:15 ; 16:18 Joshua 8:33 ; Joshua 24:1 Joshua 24:4 2 Chronicles 26:11